Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964 · THE MAP IN JAN 1857

Map of India in January 1857

The Company’s India

India in January 1857: The Company’s India. The map shows who held what: British India — direct rule, Crown colonies · Burma after 1937.

On the ground

• Lower Burma — Arakan and Tenasserim British since 1826, Pegu since 1852; the inland kingdom of Ava stood free until 1885
• Dalhousie’s annexations, 1848–56 — the Punjab, Pegu, Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and, in 1856, Oudh
• Dalhousie’s annexations, 1848–56 — the Punjab, Pegu, Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and, in 1856, Oudh
• Dalhousie’s annexations, 1848–56 — the Punjab, Pegu, Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and, in 1856, Oudh
• Dalhousie’s annexations, 1848–56 — the Punjab, Pegu, Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and, in 1856, Oudh
• Dalhousie’s annexations, 1848–56 — the Punjab, Pegu, Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and, in 1856, Oudh
• Dalhousie’s annexations, 1848–56 — the Punjab, Pegu, Satara, Jhansi, Nagpur and, in 1856, Oudh
• the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir — Hindu maharaja, Muslim majority
• the Rajputana Agency — some twenty princely states, Jaipur to Jodhpur
• the Central India Agency — Gwalior, Indore, Bhopal, Rewa and the Bundelkhand states
• the Western India states — Baroda, the Kathiawar states, Cutch
• Hyderabad State — the Nizam’s dominion, largest of the princely states
• Mysore State — the “model state” of the princely order
• Travancore & Cochin — princely Kerala
• Kalat and the Baluchistan states, under the Khan of Kalat
• Bahawalpur State, along the Sutlej

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